Re: [PATCHv2] KVM: x86: Fix memory leak in vmx.c

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Il 18/04/2013 01:03, Andrew Honig ha scritto:
> I don't have a significant objection to freeing the memory in
> kvm_arch_free_memslot, although I think it's a little harder to
> understand.  I like the idea of being symmetric (memory is allocated
> by calling kvm_set_memory_region and freed using the same technique).
> That way if someone changes from vm_mmap to something else it will be
> obvious that they need to change both.
> 
> Also, it looks like your patch is based on something several commits
> behind HEAD on virt/kvm/kvm.git,

Yeah, it was just whatever version I had checked out on the laptop. :)
So that maintainers can look at both approaches and see what they prefer.

Gleb, Marcelo, wdyt?

Paolo

> which significantly affect your
> patch.  In the HEAD version it assumes that user_alloc is always set
> unless it's a private memslot.  This appears to already have been the
> case and allows a bunch of simplifications, some of which would apply
> to your patch.

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